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How do you know that the Bible is really Divinely inspired? (924jeremiah.wordpress.com)
It is important that we understand how our Bible came into being and what a tenuous thing its existence really is. After all, who’s to say that the Bible you read is really the correct one? Within the Christian Church there are several different biblical canons (collections of books) in use. Some denominations include more books in their Bibles—books which they believe to be every bit as inspired as the rest of Scriptures. Yet other branches of the Church reject these books as not inspired enough to warrant a place within our sacred Scriptures. Some Bibles include additional material for the books of Daniel, Esther, Psalms, and Jeremiah—material that other Bibles intentionally leave out. At some point we need to ask ourselves, “Why do I believe my Bible is truly inspired by God?” If our answer is just “Because someone else said so,” then we have a problem. We need a much better reason than this. Many Christians think the “proof” that the Bible is inspired can be found within the Bible itself
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Countless Christian theologians, teachers, and laymen have gone far astray because they tried to use the Bible as a substitute for God. Without God, the Book is useless. Unless we are aligned with Him every time we read with a submissive, eager-to-learn, open minded attitude, we are just going to keep recycling the same lies that have been passed around the Church for years. You need God to teach you truth, and as a Christian, you have Him dwelling right inside of you all the time. Now you just need to be wise enough to listen to Him. Don’t be impressed by manmade credentials and degrees. Many souls who have spent thousands of dollars to purchase a doctorate in biblical studies are total idiots when it comes to God’s truth because they aren’t listening to Him. You don’t have to follow their bad example. By all means, read your Bible—but only receive from it truths that the Holy Spirit is giving to you. Don’t let Paul, James, Luke, Matthew or anyone else be your final authority in life. Listen to God Himself, and He will tell you when the words of other men have merit for you.

Who gave us the scriptures? :: Certainly NOT the roman catholic so called church.. (christianspooksite.wordpress.com)
The canonization of specific writings as Scripture is an ecclesial act. The early Christians, of course, inherited the Bible of Judaism and then proceeded to add the writings we now call “New Testament.” This canonical process of discernment and judgment lasted centuries. There is no need to rehearse the history of the canonical process, which is beyond my competence in any case. The crucial point is clear: the acknowledgement of a given text as the written Word of God, and therefore as worthy of being read and preached in the eucharistic assembly, is an authoritative act of the community of believers.
The Roman church says they proclaimed which books were actually inspired and placed them in one volume, so we should all be indebted to the Catholic Church for the New Testament. Actually the Catholic Church in 397 the Council of Carthage had the 27 books considered the canon. However these books were read and distributed as Scripture for over 300 years by individual Christians and church’s long before their church councils claimed to give us the Bible.

When Scripture Becomes Scripture (afkimel.wordpress.com)
The writings of the Bible exist as historical artifacts and may therefore be read as historical artifacts. To properly interpret a text we must seek to understand it within its historical context. We need to know all sorts of things: we need to know who wrote it and why; we need to know its intended audience; we need to know the literary genre to which it belongs; we need to know about the society in which the author and audience lived; we need to know the cultural and literary conventions of the time; we need to know the worldview the text inhabits, etc.
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Acknowledging a specific writing as belonging to the Christian Bible means at least the following: (1) its ultimate author is God; (2) its ultimate audience is the Church of all times and places; (3) its ultimate theme is God’s work of salvation in Jesus Christ; (4) it can only be properly interpreted in relationship to the other books of the Bible; and (5) it can only be properly interpreted within the eucharistic faith and praxis of the Church.

Reading Scripture as non-Scripture (afkimel.wordpress.com)
The canonization of specific writings as Scripture is an ecclesial act. The early Christians, of course, inherited the Bible of Judaism and then proceeded to add the writings we now call “New Testament.” This canonical process of discernment and judgment lasted centuries. There is no need to rehearse the history of the canonical process, which is beyond my competence in any case. The crucial point is clear: the acknowledgement of a given text as the written Word of God, and therefore as worthy of being read and preached in the eucharistic assembly, is an authoritative act of the community of believers.

Storkersen: Is the Bible open to interpretation? (iegrapevine.com)
Acknowledging the complexity and diversity of scripture should bring a reasonable amount of humility to the reader. The fact of the matter is that each author, like modern authors, has a purpose for why they are writing.
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The Bible is filled with a conglomeration of literary genres that you can’t treat every single part of the Bible the same.

The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit #2 (fromthepreacherspc.org)
We know who did not write the Bible
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The Bible is far above what man could ever produce
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Many claim that God only provided the thought and that man was at liberty to write God’s words in their own words. Yet, Bible writers said they wrote the words of God – not the thoughts of God.
At the same time, it’s very dangerous for so many Christians, millions upon millions of people, who read the Bible to take the same book and claim it is telling them different things.Every rational human being has to admit that there is a problem with this. We must all ask ourselves, “Is the Bible really open to interpretation?”

The Church Never Apostatized – english (workersectingreece.wordpress.com)
he Canon that we have, was finalized in 397 A.D., in the Council (Synod) of Carthage. At least that Church – which gave us the Canon for the New Testament – was surely “a pillar and foundation of the truth” (Timothy I, 3:15). If the Church had indeed preserved apostolic tradition, then it certainly was capable of deciding on the Canon of valid books for the New Testament; if, however, it had become corrupt and apostate, it would obviously not have preserved apostolic tradition and subsequently any decision that it may have reached for this Canon would have been erroneous! To quote the Holy Bible: “Who can extract the clean from the unclean? No-one” (Job, 14:4 – Vamvas Translation). But, if we accept that apostolic tradition was properly preserved by that Church, qualifying it to decide on the Canon, then it could not have been in apostasy!

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